AI’s Zero-Day Wake-Up Call: What Mythos Means for Cyber Defence | Episode 2

The Threat Intelligence Podcast · Jun 2, 2026 · 29m

In this episode of The Threat Intelligence Podcast, Rachel James and Brian Nakayama of the OWASP GenAI AI Threat Intelligence Initiative about Anthropic’s Mythos model and the changing role of AI in vulnerability discovery.Rachel explains how earlier AI models offered limited value to attackers unless the user already had significant technical expertise. Those systems could help with pieces of a task, but they struggled to reason through vulnerabilities or generate reliable exploit paths on their own. Mythos, by contrast, appears to demonstrate a more advanced ability to analyze source code…